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Bringing history to life with Leigh Straw
October 23 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
From the story of a shooting in the ballroom at Government House in 1925, to the history of the Roe Street brothels, and Australia’s ‘most beautiful’ murderer, Leigh Straw has a knack for taking Perth’s history and reinvigorating it for the modern reader. Join Leigh for a presentation on how to bring moments in history to life for a wider readership as non-fiction, and how to attract a publisher for your work.
Leigh Straw is an academic, historian and writer. She is the author of true crime biographies of Australian crime figures Kate Leigh and Dulcie Markham, and Australia’s first female detective, Lillian Armfield. Leigh was the joint winner of the 2018 Margaret Medcalf Award for her book After the war: Returned soldiers and the mental and physical scars of World War I. Leigh Straw is an Associate Professor of History at The University of Notre Dame Australia.
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